When we use the word "emancipation" we think of slavery in America. But for centuries in Europe, Jews lived in ghettos with restricted rights. Jonathan Kirsch talks to author and former NPR London Bureau Chief Michael Goldfarb about his book Emancipation: How Liberating Europe's Jews from the Ghetto Led to Revolution and Renaissance.

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When we use the word "emancipation" we think of slavery in America. But for centuries in Europe, Jews lived in ghettos with restricted rights. Jonathan Kirsch talks to author and former NPR London Bureau Chief Michael Goldfarb about his book Emancipation: How Liberating Europe's Jews from the Ghetto Led to Revolution and Renaissance.